#being

[philosophybits]

I seem to have such strength in me now, that I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In thousands of agonies — I exist. I'm tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[secondshark]

Solivan Scissorhands

[captain-heartstrings]

giggling so loudly about the new two time skin

[william-s-churros]

sun bear

[thirdity]

One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

[unknowable-known]

Why is everything “possible” ?

Because to entertain impossibility is confining nature into partiality, or a specific structure or model of “reality” that can never be truly verified

If there’s no internal vs. external, no actual anything or everything, then defining any limit is just the same as thinking the later is actual. And the only thing that can actually be verified fully is awareness, being.

And it’s not about impossibility vs. possibility. It just is, infinitely…

I’m sure we’ve all experienced the mind coming up with all sorts of frameworks in an attempt to define and articulate what this all is…but any are just a passing dream. Including any limits that might “make sense” because a “you vs. others” is unreal, just an idea (how can I decide if I’m unreal, what does this mean if it’s infinite?)

If there’s no impossibility, then there’s no opposite possibility. So that just leaves it as an unspeakable open ended-ness. And while this does imply unlimited possibility, it’s never about such in the face of impossibility. It’s never in spite of impossibility, never because of impossibility. It just is, because it infinitely can be. Simple.

This is why it’s said there’s nothing to escape, nothing to find. Nothing in spite of anything. No possibility in spite of impossibility. There’s no structure or limits, and unlimited is so unlimited that to define it as such in relation to an unreal opposite (limit) misses the point.

Still unlimited, infinite possibility are useful words. Just understand that it’s never because of any actual model of reality. Simply just our conceptually unknowable nature. Only known in and of itself…

[cindycross-39]

I love being a woman